TWINKLE: Tailings

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TWINKLE: [breathing hard] Holy hell.

GANZO: [breathing hard] Yeah. Damn. Damn, we made it!

TWINKLE: When those things — 

GANZO: Tailings.

TWINKLE: When the Tailings came after us all I could think was: we aren’t going to reprint. This is it. I finally get to go outside and the first thing I do is die on a spear.

GANZO: Let’s sort this cache into ‘take’ and ‘bury’. Why didn’t Sophie let you outside?

TWINKLE: Why didn’t I ever do any work, you mean?

GANZO: Hey. You always seemed cool. I just never saw you…do anything.

TWINKLE: I’m keeping something secret. If I ever got sick and reset, Sophie wasn’t sure she could convince me to keep it secret again. So…I had to stay safe.

GANZO: Ruby gets killed all the time. Really freaks me out.

TWINKLE: Yeah…she asked me to listen to a recording once.

GANZO: Thanks for tricking me into leaving her.

TWINKLE: What?

GANZO: I mean it. If we’re all marked ‘do not reprint’, so is she. She didn’t reprint. I would’ve gone looking for her and…

TWINKLE: The Masefield would’ve got you.

GANZO: I can hear the tree, Twinkle. It wants me to go into the sea and…feed myself to it.

TWINKLE: If you do that you’ll never see Ruby again.

GANZO: Yeah. I know. Anyway, we can’t stay here. Tailings don’t like the open plains. We can build there and start scanning for the Jubilee.